The Life of Animals | Cethosia Cyane | Hind wing: three or four spots just beyond apex of cell, a subterminal row of spots and the termen broadly black, the last with a series of white lunules as on the fore wing. Underside variegated with red, white, pale blue, ochraceous and black; the terminal margins of both wings broadly black with white lunules as on the upperside; in the middle of each lunule a short white streak from the margin
cilia alternately black and white. Fore wing: the cell with transverse bands of red, blue and black; the base and disc below the cell red spotted with black, followed by pale blue, ochraceous and black; the white oblique band as on upperside, beyond it a transverse incomplete row of lanceolate white marks, with three black spots in each, followed by a subterminal ochraceous band paling inwardly
Antennae, head and thorax dusky brown; abdomen above tawny, beneath white. Similar to the male in markings, but the tawny ground colour replaced by pale greenish white, somewhat brownish on the upperside of fore wing, the extent of black on this wing larger. Antennae, head and thorax dusky brown; abdomen dusky above, white beneath.
